Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or property of being open, in any sense of that word.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being open.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Accommodating attitude or opinion, as in receptivity to new ideas, behaviors, cultures, peoples, environments, experiences, etc., different from the familiar, conventional, traditional, or one's own. - noun The degree to which a person, group, organization, institution, or society exhibits this liberal attitude or opinion.
- noun computing degree of accessibility to view, use, and modify computer code in a shared environment with legal rights generally held in common and preventing proprietary restrictions on the right of others to continue viewing, using, modifying and sharing that code.
- noun systems theory The degree to which a system operates with distinct boundaries across which exchange occurs capable of inducing change in the system while maintaining the boundaries themselves.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); without concealment; not secretive
- noun without obstructions to passage or view
- noun willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas)
Etymologies
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Examples
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For Grade, what he calls the "openness" of the film sector is what makes it worth supporting.
Pinewood celebrates 75 years filming the best of British and Hollywood 2011
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KM: The "openness" which you acknowledge yourself, comes neither from changing Hamas 'position nor from acquiescing to external pressures -- this openness is part of Hamas' strategy:
Sharmine Narwani: Khaled Meshaal Interview: A Hamas Take on Mideast Geopolitics (Part 2) Sharmine Narwani 2010
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KM: The "openness" which you acknowledge yourself, comes neither from changing Hamas 'position nor from acquiescing to external pressures -- this openness is part of Hamas' strategy:
Sharmine Narwani: Khaled Meshaal Interview: A Hamas Take on Mideast Geopolitics (Part 2) Sharmine Narwani 2010
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KM: The "openness" which you acknowledge yourself, comes neither from changing Hamas 'position nor from acquiescing to external pressures -- this openness is part of Hamas' strategy:
Sharmine Narwani: Khaled Meshaal Interview: A Hamas Take on Mideast Geopolitics (Part 2) Sharmine Narwani 2010
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KM: The "openness" which you acknowledge yourself, comes neither from changing Hamas 'position nor from acquiescing to external pressures -- this openness is part of Hamas' strategy:
Sharmine Narwani: Khaled Meshaal Interview: A Hamas Take on Mideast Geopolitics (Part 2) Sharmine Narwani 2010
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KM: The "openness" which you acknowledge yourself, comes neither from changing Hamas 'position nor from acquiescing to external pressures -- this openness is part of Hamas' strategy:
Sharmine Narwani: Khaled Meshaal Interview: A Hamas Take on Mideast Geopolitics (Part 2) Sharmine Narwani 2010
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KM: The "openness" which you acknowledge yourself, comes neither from changing Hamas 'position nor from acquiescing to external pressures -- this openness is part of Hamas' strategy:
Sharmine Narwani: Khaled Meshaal Interview: A Hamas Take on Mideast Geopolitics (Part 2) Sharmine Narwani 2010
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KM: The "openness" which you acknowledge yourself, comes neither from changing Hamas 'position nor from acquiescing to external pressures -- this openness is part of Hamas' strategy:
Sharmine Narwani: Khaled Meshaal Interview: A Hamas Take on Mideast Geopolitics (Part 2) Sharmine Narwani 2010
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KM: The "openness" which you acknowledge yourself, comes neither from changing Hamas 'position nor from acquiescing to external pressures -- this openness is part of Hamas' strategy:
Sharmine Narwani: Khaled Meshaal Interview: A Hamas Take on Mideast Geopolitics (Part 2) Sharmine Narwani 2010
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I have been arguing that such openness is in fact sound, and that closing off this possibility in our minds (and in our conversations) cannot be sound, especially given how much scientists have yet to learn about the genetic basis of intelligence.
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